BackTalk

After my article about industrial products that needed one more iteration to get things right -- like WD-39 or SixUp, the um, cola -- appeared in McSweeney's, I wrote a sequel of sorts involving book titles. (Long after I wrote the piece, which appears on RejectPile.com), I found someone else had come up with a similar idea on McSweeney's but with different, and fewer, jokes, years before I became a regular reader of that site.)

You can check out the article here. But here are some additional titles that ddn't make the cut but that I liked anyway:

99 Years of Solitude

Valley of the Doll

Six Years in Tibet

1983

The Six Habits of Mildly Effective People

Where the Wild Thing Is

The Second Man

And Then There Was None

﻿Here are some offered by my friend William Vodrey:

Moby-Richard

The Pretty Good Gatsby

As I Lay Mildly Constipated

The Satanic Limericks﻿

To all my follower(s), let me know if you have suggestions of your own.